Pace Academy - Pacesetter Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Bicentennial Sights

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IWKWIWAWAWAWA Two centuries ago , we had our American Revolution , and the years have done something to it. The legends remain, as do the statues, grassy battlefields, and great changes that affected the country. When we look back, we see Washington crossing the Delaware on a cold winter night or kneeling in prayer in the snow of Valley Forge, we see the minutemen or the lonely Virginia riflemen pictured in fringed buckskin. The great force behind the Revolution which brought a nation to its birth was the living , aspiring, struggling people who were immediately involved in it. The hard facts were that, like all of history's wars, the war of the American Revolution was a hard , wearing, bloody, and tragic business - a struggle to the death which we nearly lost. Furthermore, the Revolution was a struggle which was fought by people very much like ourselves. They were willing to fight and die for what they believed which was necessary to make the dream of independence and freedom come trueg and we who look back owe them a debt whose size is almost beyond our comprehension, in a sense , it is not only our two- hundredth birthday, it is theirs as well. They did not have a very easy time of it, and they got confused and discouraged. Often it is difficult to envision how the Americans could have won the Revolution. In the course of more than six years of bitter warfare , these brave Americans worked something out. They began to see, amidst the monotony, discomfort, acute dangers, and suffering of constant military campaigning, that they were somehow more than just soldiers of separate colonies. Through their efforts, a nation was born . As South Carolina's Christopher Gadsden had urged before the fighting started , they began to see that there ought to be no more New England men, no New Yorkers . . . but all of us Americans! KWIWAWAWAWIWA

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I want to laugh while the laughing is easy. I want to cry if it makes it worthwhile. I may never pass this way again, that's why I want it with you 'Cause you make me feel like I'm more than a friend, Like I'm the journey and you're the j ourney' s end. I may never pass this way again. That's why I want it with you.